FORT WORTH, Texas — No player during Super Bowl week has been more outspoken than Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison. Ask him a question and he'll give you an answer. He's not afraid to voice his opinion.

"I’m not worried about anything," Harrison said. "It’s a free world. I can say what I want to, as long as I don’t cuss you, crush you or anything else. I can say what I want; it’s my opinion. I’ve never seen a rule in the NFL rulebook that says I can’t speak my opinion. I feel like I’ve got $100,000 that says I can get it off my chest."

The $100,000 remark was a reference to the amount of money the NFL fined Harrison this season for helmet-to-helmet hits or hits on defenseless players.

Harrison had plenty to say Thursday during an interview session with media at TCU's basketball arena. Here's a sampling:

On whether he has been using this week as a forum for sending a message to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell: “I’m not trying to send a message to him, I’m just saying how I feel. If that’s sending a message to him, so be it."

On what he would say to Goodell: "I couldn’t tell you what I was going to say to him directly. I’m hoping to be on the podium (after the Super Bowl) to get that trophy from him, and I’ll whisper in his ear what I want to tell him."

On the owners' suggestion to expand the regular season to 18 games: “Stupid. Ridiculous. Mr. Rooney (Steelers chairman emeritus Dan Rooney) came out and said it himself. He doesn’t need the money. Obviously, everybody else is worried about the money. That’s what this comes down to; what helps them make more money. They say they’re worried about player safety, but they want to add two more games."

On whether he expects the owners to lock out the players after the collective bargaining agreement expires in early March: "There's no doubt in my mind."